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Filmmaker Defends 'Go to Hell Barack' Metro Ad
Clements: Phrase designed to capture 'magnitude of anger' at health care reform.
Independent filmmaker Logan Darrow Clements said Wednesday that his decision to use "Go to hell Barack" in a Metro advertisement was borne out of his anger at the state of America's healthcare system -- and where he feels it's headed. "It was designed to express the magnitude of anger over our move toward socialized medicine," Clements told Patch in a phone interview. "I'm extremely upset the government is going to take over health care. I'm not mildly upset. I'm extremely upset." An advertisement for Clements' movie "Sick & Sicker" in the Clarendon Metro station states, "Barack Obama wants politicians and bureaucrats to control America's entire medical system." It adds: "Go to hell Barack." The language has drawn the ire of U.S. Rep. Jim …
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5:11 pm on Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Relax, Uncle Pants! I'd be upset if I were an Obama supporter too, but try to unclench your teeth and follow along. The Senate has trampled on the Constitution and not passed a budget in over 1,000 days. It has received budgets passed by the House repeatedly, but rather than negotiate as the Constitution requires, Harry Reid and the Democrat controlled Senate have decided to try and circumvent … more ›